Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
ANNE CARSON
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Desire is no light thing.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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